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Church starts fundraiser for Smithfield man who fell 50 feet at shipyard

Summary by Smithfield Times
Members of Smithfield’s Good Shepherd Catholic Church have started a fundraiser for a worker who suffered life-threatening injuries when he fell 50 feet from scaffolding at Newport News Shipbuilding. Jesse Melms, a parishioner at the church and lifelong Smithfield resident, was working for a Navy contractor when he fell from the side of the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis at about 10:45 a.m. on Sept. 9, according to reporting by The Virgini…
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Smithfield Times broke the news in on Thursday, September 11, 2025.
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